He was a talented Formula Three graduate from the late
1960s, who then graduated to Formula Two and then to Formula One in 1971.
The finance for the team came from a group of stockbroker friends
from whom the team took its name - at first
Clarke-Mordaunt-Guthrie Racing, and in 1973 it became
Clarke-Mordaunt-Guthrie-Durlacher Racing. He raced on one
occasion, at the 1971 Canadian Grand Prix, for
the works March team. Beuttler's best result was a seventh place in
the 1973 Spanish Grand Prix.

Beuttler retired from racing the following year and eventually
moved to the United
States, where he died of complications resulting from AIDS in 1988, in Los Angeles, aged
48.